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Oops. I think that stream is a branch of the Lockatong and is a protected C1 waterway. Not sure you can drain it like that...... I have a C1 on my property and can't even remove a fallen tree or mantain the bank.

Today I had lunch in Princeton and was walking on Nassau Street behind a group of Chinese National middle schooler who were obviously visiting the US and stopped to see Princeton University. Most of our kids never visit a college until they are accepted, much less make it part of a summer vacation. Time to start making scholarship a top priority in our schools and make sports the past time pursuit. Or, get used to loses jobs to other countries who do.

This another example of Too Big to Fail. Big time college football has gotten so big and so lucrative for schools that they rely so much on the revenues to meet the budget they are willingto risk it all to keep the program going. When a football coach makes more than the college president and top professors, there is something wrong. Anyone who attended or visited Penn State would realize the cult-like culture of State College and "Happy Valley" and could somehow, just somehow, understand how this could have happended. And, State College is just one example of many Big College towns in this country. The US is now 26th in the World in educating our children. Maybe this is good time to reflect on how we are allocating our assets and time in our educational institutions. Maybe we should spend more time glorifying the scholars and less time glorifying the Joe Paternos of the world.

The majority of uninsured in the US are US citizens living in the South and flyover States that are so against the mandated health insurance plan. Why pay when you can get it for free and bleed the nation's healthcare structure dry. How Patriotic!

Capital Health moved out of Trenton because of the burden of the uninsured patients showing up at the ER for everything from a head cold to a gun shot wound. This is what is driving most hospital out of urban areas and into he more affluent suburbs. ObamaCare will actually reduce the burden of inner-city hospitals who have to treat the unisured and either eat the cost of treatment or pass it on the the insured patient that walks through the door. Just look at the positive impact RomneyCare (the ObamaCare prototype) has had on the financial stability of urban hospitals in MA.

I would love an amendment of the tax code that institutes a national flat tax and national sales tax. We would eliminate the deficit under the current debt to GDP level in 5 years. Our tax code is not fair when only 15% of earners account for 90% of collected revenues. We all need to pay our fair share if you want to complain how it's spent.

Let's face it, the criminal contempt vote against Holder in the House of Reps was a party line vote and would have the same legal impact if the passing resolution said that Holder was the Easter Bunny. It is not an enforceable act of Congress and was put to vote in the House for political purposes and on Thursday to distract away from the Dems victory in the SCOTUS. This is the first time that Obama has invoked Executive Privilege. DUBYA did it 17 times during his two terms.... remember Scooter Libby, the fall guy for Dick Cheney. How about the fact the Karl Rove ignored a Congressional Subpoena. And then,,, may I continue,, the $7 Trillion wasted on two wars that did nothing but kill 3,500 American soldiers and 100Ks of innocent civilians, and the GOP complains about spending $1.7 Trillion hear on American soil to better the lives of Americans??

Between 1830 and 1930 approximately 45M people immigrated to this country, mostly from Western Europe. The immigration records at Ellis Island registered 16M immigrants during that period. Let's face it, we are a Nation of illegal immigrants from the first landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

Have we all forgotten that ObamaCare is RomneyCare 2.0. Also, that Romney's great grandfather renounced US citizenship and moved to Mexico with his four wives when polygamy was outlawed in Utah, under the pressure of the Federal government. Romney also has to explain why he pays an effective tax rate of 11% when the rest of us schmucks pay taxes at an effective rate of twice his rate. This guy has told us nothing about his plan for the salvation of the country. How will he bring jobs back to the US? By dropping the tax rate? Raising import tariffs? Asking China to stop manipulating their currency? What leverage do we have? China and Brazil are the fastest growing consumers of American exports. We raise import tariffs, so do they. We sell fewer goods, we close plants and unemployment goes to 25% and we sink into a global depression. And taxes? Companies incorporate in tax friendly haven, Switzerland, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, where Romney keeps his money. They manufacture in China because that’s where there is a very capable and plentiful labor force and where the supply chain and consumers are located. Not because of tax rates. Romney is a Wall Street guy. He lives in a world of the mega-wealthy and has no idea what it is like to worry about money. He never has. His wife once said that in college they had to sell some stock to pay rent when money was tight. Obama is not a Muslim. His grandmother, who raised him, was a Christian Missionary in Kenya and he was schooled in a Christian school. Let's stop all the Fox News sound bites and agree that all of us on the forum are not members of Mitt Romney's Country Club and we are not going to be on his radar if he wins the White House.

The majority who do not like the President's healthcare plan includes the left wing liberals who do not think it goes far enough. Exclude them from the total, because they will vote for Obama over Romney in any election.

Well stated! As a fellow member of the real tax paying public, as most Americans don't pay taxes, I agree with you. This country is falling behind the rest of the world in every category, education, quality of life, public health and so on... Every $1 spent on preventative healthcare saves $3 dollars in critical care.

Employers of less than 51 employees are exempt from mandated insurance coverage for their employees (90% of businesses in the US have less than 50 employees). That said, if I was sitting in an ER and just pulled out my insurance card from my employer and somebody came in and said that they were uninsured because their employer does not provide basic health insurance, I'd be pretty pissed off. The cost of his treatment hits my employers insurance costs.

Hospitals and doctors can't make money serving the uninsured because without passing the cost on to the insured. Isn't that a form of a tax? The alternative is to send people without health insurance away when they show up at the ER, or deny them emergency services when the first responder shows up at the auto accident or little league game. Is access to healthcare a right or a privilege? Do we really have the stomach to see mothers with sick children turned away at the hospital?

It concurs with most studies to say "In the St. Louis metropolitan area, houses associated with a school ranked at 1 SD below the mean are essentially priced on physical characteristics only. In contrast, houses associated with higher-quality schools command a much higher price premium.